Y V 1 th The MJeekly Banner. . Thursday, October 28, 1886. Tng"'Anstin Statesman is work log with might and main for Ter rell for tho United States sonatc. lUillilIcntly,thfnk8 that Tcrroll is , tho grcatcst'tnan in American to day. Toe Bollvillo Times is a good Democratic paper. It opposed the nomination of Judgo Mooro lor congress, but tho judgo proved to bo tho almost unanimous choico of tho people, and tho Times now gives him its hearty support. This is as it shonld bo. A New York commercial dis- catch savs: "Thoro is excellent anthority in regard to G,500,000 bales boing already made. With this estimato in view thoro is but littlo probability of anything liko a'matcrial advanco in tho price oi cotton daring tho present season. The Groonvillo Herald last week issued a special edition printed on book paper. Barring tho por traits, it is tho handsomest special oditions ever issned by tho conn try prs in Texas. The papor is credit to Groonvillo and to the en terprising proprietor o...

i City and County. SPECIAL NOTICE. Parties knowing themselves to bo indobtod to tho Wklt Sktt- keb for subscriptions will oblige us by paying up. This is not a dun; it is simply a gcntlo hint, a remain, dor. as it were, that tho money would bo acceptable. Tni city council onglitto enforce tho sidewalk ordinance. The district court adjourned tor tbo term on Wednesday afternoon. Tub lest and candidates ball at Zionsvillo last Sunday was well at tended. Mb. E. Lanouammkb announces lie arrival ol a new voter at his hotrso. The tail races at tho Brenham Driving Park promiso to bo very interesting. Kvr.nrBoDY savs tho business streets of tho city ought to be lighted at night. Cotton. There was a dcclino in futures in New York on Monday. Tho market hero is dull at quota tions. ."heee will bo a grand rally of tho Pcoplo's ticket at Chappoll Hill on Saturday. Tho brass band will bo thar. 1 1 1 Attention is called to advertise ment of Fest and Ball at Berlin on Sunday October 31st. Candidates...

h IV iKLY Banner. NKIN & LEVIN. , November 4, 188G. Ftuircs K.OMATOS, of Japan, with his goilo, wfis in Chicago on Hod dayoExprcssed great admira tion rorTho" American people Ajomt Gbauaii, a negro, a magia- jjirato, residing fifteen miles south- st of Jlomphis, was shot and kill- fed whllo standing in tho, door of 'his cabin last Saturday night. Thoro is no clow to tho assasin. The editor of tho Prohibition paper of Boll county was somo iimo ago tho publisher of tho Liquor Settlors Journal in Pallas. It is very likely that ho is n thor ough Bohemian and is working simply for his bread and butter. Tni Fort Worth Gazctto says a dark-lantern organ calls Peter Smith srmossbock, and yet Peter Smith has dono mors for tho work' ingmori of Fort Worth than all the mon combined who now poso as tho friends df labor. It is tho samo thing ovcry where. i lr is now gonerally supposed that tho-old alcaldo is quietly wailing -to bo called out as the dark horso candidato for United States Senato...

"s Citv and County. But fow vacant residences In the city. CouruiNTis raailo that diseased ponltry is boing marketed horo. Some of onr men hanls aro doing quito a respectable wholesale busi ness. , Cotton sood halls and oil cako aro being hanlcd to the country lor cattlo Iced. Election day was warm and pleasant especially pleasant for tho winning sido. Skvfkal school hoys engaged in a general free fight ncartho school gronnds on rnj wvniu 'Xdeue was a Tory largo crowd of nnnnin in town Saturday, and much electioneering was dono. BbendaM is sadly in ncod of a now calabooso; tho old rattle-trap now usod for that purpose is a dis graco to tho city. Eeeniiam is sadly in need of at Ioast '.wo good night policemen; men -who aro not afraid to do their ilnlyjnrilhout lear or favor. Quite alargo number of our eiti ions visited tho white public school on Friday to witness tho monthly examination of tbo students. The dav was on Tuesday almost wholly given over to the olcttion j vory fow peoplo...

t ITome and Farm. WIUTTiiE COTT03PIAHTCESCAH30. N. 0. Tinxs-Deiiiocrat." Tho Vjcksburg Planters.' Journal docs not tieliovo that tlib Southern cottorrplantcrs will or can organ izo a combination against the Atncricaji Cotton Seed Oil Trust. "Tho pjantciy would rather sink into abject poverty," it remarks, "than combine and stick to;;othor as a unit on anything, no matter how vital fi, tboir interests' and past qxperienco in tho matter of controlling tho crop, reducing pro duction; etc., would seem to prove it trno in'this estimate. Bat whilo tho planters cannot bo united in any county organization it thinks it possiblo to persuade them'that it is to their in tores t not to soILiho seed to the monopoly at present prices; that it pays better to uso, as a fertilizer. Sold it brings on!y'S2 por ton; used on the sou it returns iu to t-U in in creased, piouuction oi staple. "No country tnlho world," says tho JonrnaL, "has Icon moro im povoriscTWhan tho'coltoiT States through tCo5uJeidal,'...

City and County. The B. &0. tologranh ofllco now has a telephone Those who laugh last laugh best Iho radical candidates do not look happy, noilhcr do they laugh Tiiins is a marked absonco of hilarious and big moutliod negroes on tho street cornorr. It is woll. Mtt. E.' Reiciiabdt is olected county commissioner for this com missioners' precinct by a majority of about 125. A MonE determined set of ol men than tho citizons who mot in Brcn- ham on Friday could not bo lonnd anywhere HI TnEBE was a small bnt secret meeting ot tbo radicals Saturday afternoon tho purpose of it did not transpire. Satubdat morning wo bad a cool and refreshing norther the weath er had been ppprestvoly warm for tho season. Messrs. J. T. Sweamnqen and Hebcr Stone lelt on Thursday for Hcarno in tho interest of tho Bronhamod Brazos Valley rail way. . Fisiieb & Weis on Friday last received from Kansas sixty-fivo boadoffino fat hogs. Thoywcro beauties if bogs have any beauty. Camptown Is said to bo blessed w...

Home and Farm. cms s. Grass is tho greatest need ot tbo South. Without a rotation of crops thoro cannot bo a successful agri culture, and without grass or clover, thero cannot bo any success ful rotation in crops, nor, without these and other feeding crops, can thoro bo any manuro at all ado qnata to tho necessities of tho land. Tho greatest advantages of grass nnd clover aro tho roots and stub bio of theso crops, and the occa sional plowing under of tbo whole growth, which furnishes a largo amount of fertilising matter. This most important branch of agricul ture is almost unknown in the Southern States, and in conso quonco of it, tho yield of tho crops commonly grown, and which is ex ceedingly exhaustive, is 'very meagre, and wholly unprofitable to the farmers. This is proved by tho general averogo as shown by tho statistics of tho Agricultural Department, by which it is seen that tho yield of cotton is no more than 150 pounds per acre, worth, at tho present price, less than $9, wh...

Banner. W'm Br rankiS. Levin. Ilmrsdaj', Kqjemljer 18, I88G. BoO. B..Cclbibsos's majority i-aor vuugrcba in jjiuvcu ui uuuut xot- kQw. fnE Austin Call recommends Ion. J. W. Bains, to Governor Ross nfor socretary of Elate, a position that ho has occupied over since Governor Ireland has been in offi ce. Tho Banner fully agrees with tho Call in his recommendation. The anti-saloon Republican com mittco is holding a session in Chicago. Their object is to do away with saloons whero liquor is sold by tho drink. It was agreed to rcmovo the headquarters of tho executive committee from Chicago to Now York. A kiw process of making sugar from ribbon cano has been success fully tried by tho department of agriculture at Fort Scott, Kansas. By tho now process tho yiold of sugar is increased at least fifty per cont. This will revolutionize tho sugar business in Louisiana and Texas. i The Houston Post asserts most positively that Air. O'Brien Moore, lato managing editor of the Galves ton News, tende...

.wr City and County. The radicals dio bard. Bbinhau ought to havo olottno or gas light. It has arrived the overcoat season. Isn't it about timo to commonco advertising holiday goods. The county court was occupied Tuesday with probalo business, AirHtastorm there is alwajsa calm wo are having a calm now. Bremiam is now short on bar rooms; one closed up tho other day. Mb. R. B. .Rivers has erected a fino residence in tho northern part of tho city. The weather on Saturday was cool and murky with occasional light sun showors. Miss Mabv Woodruff, ono of the most popular toachors in our pub lic schools, lsdangoronsly ill. If you are about to gel married and want a nice weddmg inma. tion printed call at tho Baniseb. office. Business is oxtremely dull ow- m to tho excitement over the re cent election and tho low price of cotton. Invitations are out for the wed ding ol Miss Gussie Cohen of this city and Mr. Wojf Hccht, of Cucro, on tho 23d inst. Postpomsd. On account of sick ness tho ball at ...

k i, i f i& w hi ? i r i Home and Farm. WOBKntO HOUSES. In a rocent lecturo boforo tbo Pennsylvania Stalo'Board of Agri rnltnro, Dr. Harvey, amonc other things, Baid tbo follwing in rogard to tbo abovo-named topic: Tbo borso should bo mado comfortable at his work. His harness should 1 without galling. His bndlo should bo long enough to bring tho bit down to tbo angles othis lips not so short as to bring them up an inch or two abovo their natural position, as is so frequently the caso. Abo blinds should not touch bis oyes, nor his oyelids, either. His head should not be reined nn comfortable high. Onalongjonr- noy, or in pulling a heavy load, ho should not bo reined np at all. .lie is surer footed wbon his hood is free, and, if ho should stnmblo, be recovers better if bo can throw his head down and thoreby roliovo bis forolegs of a "part of tho weight of his body until they get in place again. It is tho samo prmciplo as is appneu wnen mon jump ana throw a, stono backward from eac...

l Banner. i RANKIN fa LEVIN. i ay, November 25, 1886. I, JRassian nowspapers claim tcatost flow ol petroleum Kown is taking placo at tbo veils near Baku Da. Babbzb, of tho I'cabody mn8enm at Now Haven, Conn., was knocked sonsoless by tho oxplosion f an ostrich egg. Ho had cut a holo in tho shell when it exploded. Tho egg was shipped from Capo- torin, Africa in .Novcmbor 1885 and was ovcr-ripo. A terrible ealo prevailed on liako ilichican for threo days last week and was the most disastrous storm that has swopt tho lako for years. Thirty six vessels wero found orcd or driven ashoro and thcro aro several vessels that aro missing. Tho total loss is esti mated at S400.000. According to the Austin States man all signs point to tho fact that Judco Terroll will get thore. Tho mule is now browsing in quiet pas' turos awaiting tho journoy to WasnToffton. Tho Statesman wants Terrell sent to the scnato and it of courso can sco no signs of tho times that point in any other direction The Austin ...

City and County. Hen eggs aro now selling at & bit a dozen. Sie tho Inrgo ad. of II. W. Gra bcr, of tho old reliable jcwolry honse. It Is reported that tbcro is a rood deal ol sickness in the country. The lalo norther was a regular nirnie for the stove doalcrs everybody had stoves put up. Tins poMoffico was closed on Monday from 10 .-u m. to 1 p. m., out of respect to tho memory of ex President Arthur. The impression seems to havo gotten out that the Methodist con forenco will meet hero next Friday. This is a mistake, tho conleronco moots on Wednesday December 1st mi Attention is called to tho new advertisement of F. A. Eldridgoin this issue. When ho says cost he means it, and all who aro in need of dry goods will do well to can early. Tni Great American Allied shows, thirteen shows combined for a single season, notwithstand ing its protcntious namo did a very small business in Brcnham. failed to draw. It Louise Balfe appcarod at the Trcmont opera house, Galveston, llondav nicht...

-A 3 Jil?mfe and Farm. COTTON. rari North Texan. There is sorno money in cotton cnlturo, bnt only when tho farmer plants gooa land, cultivates nigniy, raises' bis own meat and bread, and grain and rough forago for his work stock. It is better to diver sify our crops. Hotter havo moro than ono iron in the fire. If ono crop fails, wo can fall back upon tho others. Diversified (arming pays. It pays to uso labor-saving implements. Anytning tnat saves labor increases tbo-profits and do orcases tho oxpenao of making tho crop. Tho best soed pays. Thero is blooded seeds as well as blooded stock. Poor land makes poor pas tures, and poor pastures makes poorstock. Poor crops mako poor socd. Uio idea is that both good seed and good stock will rapidly degenorato into scrub stock and scrub seed by neglect. This general rnlo all over tho South to rent land to any and ovcrybody, without any restic tions as to how tho soil should bo plowed, cultivated, drained with, out any roforonco to any wiso met...